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This Arsenal don't give up, they keep on going to the final whistle."And to the final game, he hopes, of this unpredictable campaign, in which his club have not yet, for once, allowed Manchester United too big a lead: "The championship is open for maybe five clubs. The way it's going is nice because there's a lot of competition."So too with his fellow strikers, now that Jeffers is almost fit again. For a while after that signing, it looked as if Kanu would be the odd man out of five forwards, yet he insists that he never contemplated leaving and that he is equally happy to play alongside any of the other four. Divided loyalties or not, his country needs him; and Kanu is in good heart.The Kanu Nwankwo Heart Foundation, 39 Kay Road, London SW9 9DF Tel: 020 7924 0709. It is fair to assume that Edith Piaff and Frank Sinatra do not feature high on Paul Gascoigne's CD play list; he has plenty of regrets, far too many to mention them all.

The interview turned to the contribution that Gascoigne could make to the Professional Footballers' Association new campaign to educate young players about the pitfalls of fame and the disasters that flow from the demon drink. Peter Beardsley had said his old England team-mate was not the man to advise young players on such matters, and Gazza surprisingly agrees. "Peter Beardsley was right to say that," he said, but like a practised politician he did not rule out giving young players the benefit of his mature interpretation of his immature past.Talking about his place within the game he said: "I would work with kids and tell them not to do what I did. I'd tell them about how drinking can affect your muscles and how not having enough blood supply to your muscles can cause you injuries. At least four of my operations have been down to the drink."He praised the influence the imports have had on attitudes within the game.

"If you look at the foreign players and what they've brought to the game it's been brilliant – how they eat, how they train, how they act, how they stretch. I think it's made our players' eyes open a little bit."Gazza's tend to go a bit misty. Like many a wastrel newly aware of how much he threw away, Gascoigne is still capable of drifting into the kind of fantasy with which men older than him tend to decorate tales of their past."I regret what happened in the 1991 FA Cup final and I regret the boozing. I drank at the wrong times, I got into trouble and let myself down," he said. "Without the drinking I could have been one of the best players in the world – I know I would have been."Then he mentioned Dunga's influence on Brazil's 1998 World Cup campaign at the age of 36 "I could do that.

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